The Summer Reading Program (click here) had fun with Park Ranger MatthewGraham of Cumberland Gap National Park. Graham, in costume, brought furs,more furs (even a bearskin!) and plastic animal prints and even "poo", toshow how hunters snared and used the animals. We had a lot of fun!
This is called 'Unconscionable.' There is no other word for it. Obama needs to stop trying to unit the country through BiPartisan efforts. It isn't worth it and the majority of the American people know it. The people of this country have 'culled the herd' of Republican extremists in 2006 and 2008. I think the people are doing far better than the Democrats that are looking for ways to ? unit ? the country.
While the country was distracted by serious issues such as the Pakistan-Afghanistan crisis, the Neocon Republicans were sneaking around behind everyone's back and carrying out 'fear campaigns' to gain wins for their own 'extremist electorate.' And they did it successfully.
This is a complete offense against the conscience of the American people. We need the NRA? No, we don't. The NRA has just successfully removed National Parks from the reach of the 'average citizen' whom will 'go elsewhere' due to the fact there are now 'fire arms' in their parks. There is nothing like turning the National Parks into private hunting preserves.
Congress votes to allow guns in US national parks (click title to entry - thank you)
2:32PM Thursday May 21, 2009
Matthew Daly
Winter in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The US Congress has voted to allow people to carry loaded guns in the country's national parks.
WASHINGTON - In a stinging defeat for gun-control, the US Congress has voted to allow people to carry loaded guns in national parks and wildlife refuges.
The House approved the measure, 279-147, yesterday, one day after the Senate acted.
A total of 105 Democrats in the House joined 174 Republicans in supporting the gun measure, which essentially restores a Bush administration policy that allowed loaded guns in national parks for two months earlier this year.
The vote was a bitter disappointment for gun-control advocates, who watched as a Democratic-controlled Congress handed a victory to gun-rights advocates that they did not achieve under Republican rule. Many blamed the National Rifle Association, an advocacy group that pushed hard for the gun law....
Winter in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The US Congress has voted to allow people to carry loaded guns in the country's national parks.
WASHINGTON - In a stinging defeat for gun-control, the US Congress has voted to allow people to carry loaded guns in national parks and wildlife refuges.
The House approved the measure, 279-147, yesterday, one day after the Senate acted.
A total of 105 Democrats in the House joined 174 Republicans in supporting the gun measure, which essentially restores a Bush administration policy that allowed loaded guns in national parks for two months earlier this year.
The vote was a bitter disappointment for gun-control advocates, who watched as a Democratic-controlled Congress handed a victory to gun-rights advocates that they did not achieve under Republican rule. Many blamed the National Rifle Association, an advocacy group that pushed hard for the gun law....
